Use the Playback and Navigation settings to configure the options for PowerPoint to Flash and HTML5 conversion, specify settings to control presentation playback and navigation settings.

Playback Options

Preset

iSpring Suite provides you with four preset playback modes. You can also create custom playback control presets to suit your individual needs. You can save a custom preset by clicking the Save Preset button. To delete a preset, click Delete.

Start presentation automatically

Select this checkbox if you would like your Flash and HTML5 presentation to start playing automatically as soon as the first slide is loaded.

Change slides automatically

If this checkbox is selected, slides in your Flash and HTML5 presentation will advance automatically.

Minimum slide duration

This value indicates minimum playback time in seconds for non-animated slides. Slide duration for selected slides can be specified in Presentation Explorer.

Auto play on-click animations

Select this to automatically advance to the next step for on-click animations after a specified number of seconds. The "Automatic animations" option will also respect timing set within PowerPoint.

Save slide animation state

Animated slides will remain their state when a user visits the slide again. The option works for trigger animations, bullets that appear on mouse clicks etc.

Loop presentation

If selected, your presentation will automatically start from the beginning after the last slide is finished. This feature is essential for Flash banners and trade shows.

On restart

Set up the playback of the presentation when reopened.

Prompt to resume – When reopening the presentation, the user will be able to choose from two options: either to continue the previous session or to play the presentation from the beginning.

Always resume – The presentation is always resumed from where it has been interrupted without user’s intention.

Always start over – The presentation is always played from the beginning.

Mouse and Keyboard Navigation

Navigation type

By default user navigation is not restricted or free. Users can view any slide of your presentation in any order. There are two options to prevent users from advancing ahead. To restrict navigation, choose the following types of navigation:

Limited - user can advance to the next slide according to the branching settings and return to already viewed slides.

Forward only - user can advance to the next slide after s/he viewed the current slide.

Enable zooming with gestures

With this option, you can use pinch/spread gestures to scale content of this presentation on mobile devices.

Advance animations on mouse click

Select it to advance to the next animation step when you click the mouse. This option applies only for slides that contain mouse driven animations. 'Automatic animations' will always start according to the timings set from within the Custom Animation dialog of PowerPoint.

Enable keyboard navigation

This option allows you to control presentation playback with your keyboard. Select this checkbox if you want to control your presentation playback with keyboard. The following set of keys will be applied by default:

Page Up: go back to the previous slide

Page Down: advance to the next slide

Left: rewind

Right: fast forward

Up: increase volume

Down: decrease volume

Space: play/pause

Home: restart current slide

End: stop at the end of the current slide

Ctrl+Home: move to the first slide

Ctrl+End: move to the last slide

Backspace: return to the last viewed slide

Enter: move to the next animation step

Shift+Enter: return to the previous animation step

Click Customize control keys if you want to change the keys for certain actions. You can set up to three keys for each action and import/export a set of shortcut keys from/into a file.

Customize control keys

You can control your Flash and HTML5 presentation playback with your keyboard keys and customize them the way you want.

To make Keyboard Playback controls available for your Flash and HTML5 file, select the Enable keyboard navigation checkbox and click Customize control keys.

To reassign the shortcut keys, click Customize control keys.

To add a new key for an action, click the row with a key or key combination.

Note: You cannot assign the same key for two or more actions. If you press an already assigned key or a key combination, you will be asked if you really want to reassign it.

Click Reset defaults to cancel all the changes and roll back to the default shortcuts.